Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism

Name: Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism
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ISBN: 9780415915434

ISBN-10: 0415915430

ISBN-13: 9780415915434

Edition: 1997

Authors: Aihwa Ong, Donald Nonini

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This book examines Chinese transnationalism as a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Interweaving anthropology, cultural studies, and interpretive political economy, essays in this book are based on new ethnographic research, in a range of sites, that examine the connections of human agency, cultural politics, and indeed pathos. Critiquing the view that these changes are the product of the ways that late capitalism and its concomitants--flexibility, travel, sub-contracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--are reworking the identities of an ethnic population in different global situations. Contributors: Cristina Szanton Blanc,…

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/10/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Ungrounded Empires


Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity


Preface



Nationalists Among Transnationals



Boundaries and Transgressions


Preface



Space, Mobility, and Flexibility



Factory Regimes of Chinese Capitalism



Building Guanxi Across the Straits Taiwanese Capital and Local Chinese Bureaucrats


Preface



Chinese Modernities



Shifting Identities, Positioned Imaginaries



Transnational Subjects


Preface



The Thoroughly Modern "Asian" Capital, Culture, and Nation in Thailand and the Philippines





Afterword


Transnational Capitalism


Notes on Contributors


Index